On the phone, Chris Stamp is trying to describe a normal day at the office. But because Stampd, the menswear label he started in 2011, just launched an athletics collection with Puma and wrapped up a collab with Gap and GQ and is expanding into women's clothing this fall, he hasn't really had one for a while.

"The past six months I have been traveling like crazy," he tells us. "This is the first time in my life that it's caught up with me, and I'm like, I just want to chill in my loft with my dog and watch a movie."

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The ol' 9-to-5-office schedule was never for him, anyway. Growing up the son of small-business owners and a sponsored surfer in high school, Stamp realized this early on. "That kind of structure wouldn't have aligned well in my life," he says. In a way, the surfing chapter led him to fashion. "I was gifted clothes on a monthly basis," he says, "I got obsessed."

Sticking to his biggest influences—SoCal surf and skate culture, and '90s Raiders gear courtesy of N.W.A—Stamp went from a grassroots footwear startup to Stampd, with a 5,000 square-foot space in downtown L.A. and a staff of 16 he considers some of his best friends.

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"One of the things I've learned is that if I can't be friends with everybody on my team, I can't click with them," he says. "At the end of the day, we're all friends; we talk openly about the collection and we have fun. I'm so young, and I want to keep that young energy and excitement in our workplace so that everyone's inspired to work on a daily basis." We could be wrong, but we think he just described a normal day at the office.